perfumery

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  1. noun Perfumes.
  2. noun An establishment that makes or sells perfume.
  3. noun The art of making perfume.

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  • Functional perfumery is actually hugely important.There are problems to be overcome with functional perfumery.
  • In fact, the story of modern perfumery is synthetics and it is chemistry and technology, and the moronic “all natural” school of perfumery is an irrational fundamentalist cult.Perfumes are products of their time, but sometimes their time is not the time in which they were created.
  • Though the cubbyhole looked like a perfumery, the two men would be wondering whether this was where the famous Empress had mixed up the poisons with which, allegedly, she removed those who stood in her way. —  Davis, Lindsey - The Course of Honor
  • The museum consists of multiple building and masonry styles: the newly-renovated three-storey Townhouse Hotel Morel-Ponteves from the 18th century; the old museum in the former Hugues-Aine perfumery, a 19th-century building; and a part of the town's medieval city wall. —  The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • Half a dozen urchins spied me coming out of the perfumery, and my doom was sealed. —  Riviera Towns
 

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  1. from French parfumerie, perfumery, = Spanish perfumeria = Portuguese perfumaria = Italian profumeria, a place where perfumes are made or sold; as perfume + -ery.
 

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/pərˈfjuməri/
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